R e v i e w s / C o m m e n t a r i e s / A D A S t a t e m e n t s P E R S P E C T I V E S American College of Endocrinology Pre-Diabetes Consensus Conference: ZACHARY T. BLOOMGARDEN, MD
of variables such as LDL cholesterol al-lows considerably greater cardiovasculardisease prediction than available with IFG
TheAmericanCollegeofEndocrinol- ratiosthatareconsideredimportantare andIGT,similartotheperformanceofthe
with an odds ratio of 1.5 only associated
nized around a series of interrelated ques-
Ͼ0.8. It should be noted, however, that new risk factor along with conventional
the analysis to which Stern referred sim-
ply noted the complexity of relative risk in
establishing disease likelihood in an indi-
vidual of a population with modest a pri-
datasets showing the same characteristics.
ori disease risk, such that the population-
“A considerable effort is required to im-
attributable risk for a threefold increase in
relative risk may be quite substantial.
have,” Stern said. An important barrier to
to identifying pre-diabetes, noting that, of
to be the greater usefulness of continuous
health professionals tend to consider that
rather than dichotomous risk scores.
they lack naturally occurring cut points,
fore diabetes and that, of course, diabetes
With the latter, sensitivity, specificity,
he noted. In fact, however, cut points for
established risk factors such as glucose,
blood pressure, and lipids also tend to be
“tweaks the cut point,” allowing one to
arbitrary, as are the various criteria used
clearly associated, for example, with in-
optimize test behavior. He suggested that
creased cardiovascular risk). Pre-diabetes
that the notion of pre-diabetes as a condi-
tion necessitating treatment requires care-
state, the significance of which lies in its
state is associated with future morbidity
ability to predict adverse health outcomes
and mortality, one should not use the par-
for individuals diagnosed. As there is no
adigm of treating illness in devising ap-
epidemiologic study, his group calculated
evidence that early intervention (prior to
a diabetes risk score, showing it to be a
diagnosis of diabetes) is better than late
the adage “prediction is very difficult, es-
better predictive approach than either im-
intervention (after diabetes is present), he
pecially about the future,” variously at-
paired fasting glucose (IFG) (fasting glu-
suggested that “it is a very profound ques-
cose 100 –125 mg/dl) or impaired glucose
tion” as to whether the concept of pre-
pointed out that predictions applying to a
diabetes should be applied to individuals.
Rather, he suggested, it needs to be dem-
fasting glucose, systolic blood pressure,
point glycemic intervention should begin;
HDL cholesterol, BMI, and family history,
strong clinical trial data for glucose inter-
although Stern noted that ethnicity limits
the degree to which the model can be gen-
curve (AUC) a measure of the reliability of
better ability to predict diabetes than ei-
better than a flip of a coin to 1.0 for a
completely reliable test (1). Relative risk
emphasizing the need for evidence-basedprevention of diabetes and vascular com-
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plications. She discussed the complex his-
Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD, is a practicing endocrinologist in New York, New York, and is affiliated with
the Division of Endocrinology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
2008 by the American Diabetes Association. Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly
cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http://creativecommons.
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(7.0 mmol/l/l) and 2-h post–75-g glucose
glucose was found in analysis of the Ath-
waist, insulin resistance, and hyperinsu-
load levels Ն200 mg/dl (Ն11.1 mmol/l).
linemia (17). In the analysis, insulin resis-
lower limit of IFG be reduced from 110 to
100 mg/dl, putting it in conflict with the
diagnosis of diabetes (5). There are, then,
betes risk: those based on direct measures
result of heterogeneity between individu-
Dekker reviewed the concept that there is
heterogeneity in the degree to which dif-
range. As with any condition, the bulk of
given blood glucose concentration. In the
of the differing definitions and the preva-
Islington Diabetes Survey, only 19 – 41%
lence of the (pre-) disease states so de-
lations may be rather different from indi-
was explained by the 2-h glucose (12).
Although a proposal is currently being ad-
lowering agents or other drugs directed at
an estimated average glucose (13), only a
been studied in this fashion. There appear
ages 50 –75 years, with follow-up evalua-
with differing degrees of hemoglobin gly-
cation potentially related to differences in
and 2007 including oral glucose tolerance
erythrocyte survival, different intracellu-
associations from the Strong Heart Study,
ing the WHO criterion with a cut point of
erythrocyte permeability to glucose.
(More information on this point is present
diabetes versus diabetes relationships to
in a recent analysis of the topic of variabil-
CVD. A caveat is the degree of interindi-
vidual and interlaboratory variability in
ers have reported a similar increase in IFG
edly on retesting. She cited a study per-
lower risk of diabetes than those satisfying
the WHO criterion (7). In the Hoorn data-
set, individuals with either IFG (based on
quencies of 13 and 38%, respectively, for
fasting glucose Ն110 mg/dl) or IGT alone
IGT. Insulin resistance is a major determi-
A1C is also associated with future risk of
nant of type 2 diabetes and is almost al-
both elevated fasting and 2-h glucose de-
in people with IGT. Given its association
with CVD risk, she suggested that effects
diabetes, noting that its many definitions
tolerance in 1998 and 2005 similarly sug-
give rise to high variability in reported
ciated with increase in the risks of diabe-
tes (most but not all of which are due to
for insulin resistance and analyzed rela-
glucose as a factor) and CVD, with heter-
Collaborative Analysis of Diagnostic Cri-
the use of 2-h glucose without a threshold
4,549 American Indians ages 45–74 years
for mortality, as the 2-h glucose increased
from Յ3 to Ն11.1 mmol/l/l, while there is
a definite difference in outcome for fasting
(10). Similar evidence of greater associa-
(using ADA criteria), 619 IGT, 1,420 pre-
tion with mortality of 2-h than of fasting
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diabetic individuals in preventing diabe-
NEWS FROM THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
tes and in treating risk factors. Animportant question is whether, with a
From time to time, new announcements by the FDA pertaining to aspects of diabetes
more accurate measure of risk of diabetes,
treatment will be highlighted in this section.
those who subsequently develop diabeteswould show increased CVD risk before
The FDA has indicated ongoing concern about the use of ezetimibe, announcing
that it intended to investigate the report from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in
in analysis of the Nurses’ Health Study
Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) trial of a possible association between the use of Vytorin
(18). Corollary questions include 1)
and increased incidence of cancer. Cardiovascular risk was not reduced with the
agent in the study of individuals with aortic stenosis.
logically) treat blood glucose elevations
Expanding on its October 2007 report of 30 individuals receiving Byetta and
before development of diabetes or to wait
developing pancreatitis, the FDA announced that it had learned of six cases of
for diabetes to develop before initiation of
hemmorrhagic or necrotizing pancreatitis in patients receiving this agent, with all
pharmacologic diabetes treatment and 2)
requiring hospitalization and two dying. There are well-documented associations
of pacreatitis with obesity, with dyslipidemia, and with diabetes itself, and pan-
for pre-diabetic individuals. The clinical
creatitis may be associated with use of many medicines given to diabetic patients,
including sulfonylureas, ACE inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers, and di-
questions are not available, although sur-
uretics, such that the expected incidence among the more than 700,000 patients
treated with Byetta might be double or more the expected pancreatitis rate of
somewhere Ͼ0.01% in the general population—perhaps 150 cases. The reported
36 cases, then, represents an unknown fraction of those expected. One might,
lead to specific characteristics of those
then, question the FDA’s implication that Byetta increases the risk of pancreatitis,
populations differing from those of other
recognizing that while underreporting of adverse events to the agency might
make any apparent grouping of events potentially serious, there may now be an
opposite effect of the earlier announcement increasing such reporting.
be that this group “got fatter earlier . . . [and that] some of the other populations
Finally, the FDA announced that it has approved six manufacturers’ influenza
aren’t as far along this continuum.” Phar-
vaccines for the 2008-2009 season. Every year, 5-20% of the U.S. population gets
influenza, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from its complications, and
there are ϳ36,000 flu-related deaths; vaccination of people with chronic medical
conditions such as diabetes and of health care personnel is thus critical. The FDA
newsletter pointed out that just 40% of health care workers in the United States
risk ethnicity, those with IFG plus meta-
receive an influenza vaccination (http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/
described by Stern, those satisfying a riskscore based on multiple markers.
half of this very high-risk population.
IFG, IGT, and pre-diabetes led to a three-
fold increase in diabetes risk in the pop-
ulation, leading Howard to conclude that,
in this population, the GTT offered rela-
in 57 and 69%, respectively, of those with
tively little additional information to that
available from fasting glucose. Triglycer-
tively, of those with diabetes. Metabolic
ide levels were ϳ105 in NGT, 140 in pre-
the correlation of two fasting blood glu-
diabetic, and 180 in diabetic men, with a
greater age, BMI, and cigarette use, all of
cose levels was 0.72 while that of two 2-h
mean absolute differences of 4 and 17 mg/
syndrome doubled the risk of left ventric-
altered in composition in states of dysme-
and, perhaps, that it might be reasonable
tabolism, becoming more atherogenic.
creased risk of CVD events with metabolic
to follow this serially for adequate diagno-
creased with pre-diabetes, the prevalence
of carotid plaque was increased in diabe-
tes but not in pre-diabetes, and echocar-
tients, considering the great deal of data
circumference (21) predict insulin resis-
nary artery disease and stroke risks were,
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(22). An interesting consideration is “met-
abolic fitness,” with a subset of over-
differ from other risk factors in requiring a
apparent before diabetes. In the Diabetes
adverse effect. Studies in Europe (35) and
Asia (36) show that the minority of indi-
viduals with heart disease have NGT, with
a group of studies of ϳ25,000 individuals
fect in pre-diabetes in youth involved re-
sufficient to ascertain glycemic abnormal-
duced insulin secretion (24,25), with IGT
ity in this group (37), and that there is
less evidence for such an increase in fast-
reduced survival in individuals with heart
with insulin resistance. Both factors are
disease found to have diabetes (38), fur-
than fasting glucose predicting all-cause
ther suggesting the importance of assess-
ing glucose tolerance. In this study, the
minority of newly identified diabetic pa-
clearly found for fasting glucose. Adjust-
but those so treated showed a significant
resistance and loss of the first and second
ing for fasting glucose, 2-h glucose con-
phases of insulin secretion, leading to a
tinued to significantly predict increased
events (39). Interestingly, a study of indi-
the absolute risk was greater for diabetic
clinically diagnosed type 2 diabetic chil-
dren have positive GAD, islet-associated,
treatment, and statins reduced mortality,
or islet cell antibodies and tend to have
greater loss of insulin secretion and lesser
with diabetes because of the greater prev-
those without diabetes. Similarly, in this
insulin resistance, leading to the same re-
alence of the former group, implying that
study, revascularization was highly bene-
this group could benefit from treatment.
ficial for the diabetic but not for the non-
greater insulin resistance and lesser insu-
lin secretory deficiency. Data on compli-
increase in cancer mortality, a less well-
but there is evidence that atherosclerotic
complications begin in childhood (28).
pulse wave velocity (a measure of arterial
stiffness) in type 2 diabetic children, with
the effect of fasting glucose on risk elimi-
lesser but still significant increase in obese
glycemia with cerebrovascular disease.
nondiabetic children (29), indicating pre-
failed to eliminate the association of 2-h
increased in people with diabetes and, to
a lesser extent, in those with pre-diabetes
insulin resistance have increased systolic
levels, with evidence of endothelial dys-
formed (42). Finally, the risk of recurrent
that high 2-h glucose levels carry greater
and triglyceride levels among adolescents
in NHANES (19). “The big question,” Ar-
slanian concluded, “is what is the tempo
abnormal fasting glucose “doesn’t make
dicting 10-year risk of type 2 diabetes in
of progression. . . . In pediatrics it is going
any sense,” as those with normal fasting
to be highly difficult to answer this ques-
english), with age, BMI, waist circumfer-
tion.” To stop the progression to diabetes
vegetables and fruits, diagnosis of hyper-
vene, what the timeline of obesity-related
family history of diabetes used to calcu-
the magnitude of risk is for a given degree
correlate with 10-year diabetes risk (44),
lipids, and cigarette use. The increase in
likelihood of CVD and mortality (45).
seen at 0 –5 years as at 5–10 and 10 –15
tervention has been shown in the U.S. Di-
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fited. In the DPP, LDL decreased similarly
trial would require at least a decade.
with metformin and lifestyle, and for HDL
cholesterol and triglyceride levels the life-
effective in the highest-risk group, with
safe intervention such as lifestyle reduces
ongoing benefit for 4 years after the con-
clusion of the formal lifestyle intervention
placebo group, blood pressure, triglycer-
(48); and in the Chinese Da Qing Diabetes
“it is going to be very difficult to prove.”
gressing to type 2 diabetes. Of those not
issues of the impact of pre-diabetes on ne-
(49). Based on the differences reported in
thirds of the placebo group developed the
not a risk factor, as it has not fully been
shown to affect the course of renal disease
or CVD when taking all other factors into
could then be of great benefit, although it
with the lifestyle intervention (54). Levels
account. Furthermore, in addition to hav-
of tissue plasminogen activator, plasmin-
ing 20 –25% biologic variability, the as-
ogen activator inhibitor-1, and C-reactive
says themselves have 5–10% variability,
protein similarly showed greatest improve-
ment with lifestyle intervention, intermedi-
ate improvement with metformin, and little
(55). Diabetes prevention does, then, ap-
diabetes prevention, he asked, reduce mi-
cations Trial appears to be the only study
preclinical studies support this effect. (TRIPOD) study with troglitazone (56)
Bakris noted that the usual upper limit of
creatinine, is unlikely to be correct, sug-
gesting that, with metformin and lifestyle
better cutoff. Albuminuria is strongly as-
diabetic retinopathy developing in 1.0 vs.
1.8% and microaneurisms in only 6.9 vs.
(59). Bakris pointed out that the relation-
10.8% of subjects, respectively (50).
is considerably stronger than that of CRP
placebo, metformin, or lifestyle modifica-
with CVD, such that he did feel this to be
tively, with lesser relative but greater ab-
solute decreases in stroke and CHD (58).
is an even stronger CVD risk factor (61).
croalbuminuria, with a net 1% increase in
tion rate (GFR) a sturdier measure of renal
diabetes will be paid later if we don’t do
crease with the lifestyle intervention. In
anything today.” Is it possible to carry out
(DREAM) trial, 9.2% of those receiving
nal failure, the great risk of CKD is its
tion—for the statistical certainty to be
croalbuminuria, similarly suggesting ben-
0.05 and the trial power to be 90%, 3-, 5-,
diabetes are additive in causing cerebro-
vascular disease, coronary artery disease,
blood pressure, in association to a lesser
extent with metformin than with lifestyle
or peripheral arterial insufficiency.
modification, with lifestyle modification
5–15%, further increasing the number of
participants required to successfully carry
out such a study. Also, there may well be
a lag period, as suggested by Tuomilehto,
groups suggest goal blood pressure levels
of over 5 years, beginning at the time of
iglitazone, blood pressure similarly bene-
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